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The offensive plan designated by Wang Zhenbang and other admirals was to take the capture of Penghu as the first strategic goal, and to take Penghu first to "stifle it." It can not only be used as a base for the Mawei army to advance and retreat, but also controllable to control the sea power and block the passage of the Zheng army. In addition, the troops were divided into three routes, and the east and west wings cooperated, concentrating superior forces on the middle road, and destroying the Zheng army's naval division on the Penghu Islands in one fell swoop, preventing it from escaping.

Penghu was surrounded on three sides, and Zheng's sailors were all encircled in a narrow body of water, and many warships had just run out of the anchored military port. Zheng Jun's reaction was also very fast, and when he found the appearance of the Mawei Army in the north, he began to warn Liu Guoxuan, and Liu Guoxuan also decisively ordered all the warships to set sail and prepare to meet the enemy.

Wang Zhenbang had already sent a small boat to persuade him to surrender, but it was a pity that Liu Guoxuan was very loyal to Zheng Jing, and would rather die than surrender, and was determined to lead this part of the sailors to fight to the death. Liu Guoxuan is a great general, but his luck is not good, and the first time he was defeated in Houyu Harbor was at the hands of the Mawei Army. The second defeat was in the Yangtze River, and he was defeated at the hands of the Jiangning Sailors, and it can be said that he had careless elements both times. But Zheng Jing did not punish him, which made Liu Guoxuan feel guilty, at this time, even if the conditions offered by the Mawei Army were high, Liu Guoxuan would not surrender.

It's just that he also knows in his heart how big the gap between the two armies is. The opposite fleet, end-to-end, was about half as many warships. Although the number of warships of the opposing side is not as good as theirs, it is not important, it is important. There is no comparison between warships and warships. There were 260 Mawei warships, large and small. The third, fourth, and fifth ships were all sail ships. accounted for ninety percent of the total, and the total number of sail warships on Zheng Jun's side was less than twenty, which was very different. The artillery configuration is also quite poor, the guns are small, the guns are old, and the number is small, and it is obvious that this ship is extremely unlikely to win the battle.

Only a few of the main generals of Zheng Jun's water division could see the situation clearly, but the two deputies who had the idea of surrender were killed by Liu Guoxuan. The decisive battle unfolded in this small sea area of less than ten miles. In the initial engagement, one or two thousand artillery pieces of the two armies were constantly roaring, and tongues of fire erupted one after another, the sound shook the heavens and the earth, the wind and clouds changed, the raindrops of shells fell on the sea, the water column continued to rush, and the torrent surged.

As far as the soldiers could see, the sea was full of warships fighting. The scene is huge, vast. Incomparable, the waves of shouts, fights, and howls are rushing to the face, making people hairy. Hundreds of Zheng army warships, obeying Liu Guoxuan's orders, braved the overwhelming artillery fire of the Mawei Army to rush up, one after another was bombarded to the hull of the ship, the mast was broken, although you can't see the death and injury of the soldiers on the ship, but you don't need to think about it to know that it will be extremely tragic.

Some of Zheng Jun's warships had turned into huge torches, and the whole ship was blazing, the flames shining in the air, and black smoke billowed out. These Zheng warships were constantly blown up or ignited, but Zheng Jun still rushed to the side of the Mawei warship by virtue of the number, and when it was staggered, the rockets in the sky were flying in the air, and the Mawei army was also braving rockets and shotguns to throw explosive packs one by one onto the Zheng warship, and the firelight was churning in the violent explosion, and the sea was full of corpses floating, it was really a bloody pestle, and the blood waves were like mountains.

This incomparably magnificent scene, blood and fire filled the sky, the sound of killing was like a tide, and the hands of many generals of the Mawei Army holding the binoculars trembled slightly, and many soldiers did not know what they said on the sea within a radius of more than ten miles, and there were fireships that were blown up everywhere, and the sound of fierce fighting was like an angry sea, and the vast battlefield, countless warships, and the cannonballs and rockets covering the sky and the sun.

The firepower of the Mawei battleship was extremely powerful, constantly walking in a zigzag, and every moment there were hundreds of guns at the same time, and countless marbles swept through the barrage, shooting like a torrential rain towards the small warship that Zheng Jun desperately rushed up, without stopping for a moment. The sails of many Zheng warships were beaten into sieves, and even directly bombarded to pieces, and the marbles on the deck were raging, falling like hail crackling wildly, and Zheng Jun could not be allowed to rush to the deck to change sails. Not to mention a thick wooden shield or an iron shield, it was either killed by a shotgun or a flowering bomb or an explosive pack, and the warship that lost its power floated on the sea, and then it was completely sunk after a dozen or so shells.

Under such heavy artillery fire from the Mawei Army, the Zheng Army suffered extremely heavy casualties. Of the more than 500 warships in Zheng's army, 400 were small warships, no more than 15 meters long, and in less than half an hour of fighting, more than half of them were lost, and nearly 200 small warships were sunk and destroyed. Blood stained the sea red, and the waves that swelled nearby turned red.

Although Liu Guoxuan was in a large warship, rushing to the forefront, and he was also wounded, seeing that there was no hope of approaching, he did not order a retreat. But when the battle came to this point, many of the warships behind him would obey whatever he ordered.

The Mawei Army was surrounded on three sides, and there were also losses in fighting with the enemy for so long, but the number of losses was small, with a total of one third-class battleship, three fourth-class battleships, twelve fifth-class battleships losing their combat effectiveness and withdrawing from the battlefield, and two fifth-class battleships sunk so far. However, at this moment, there is also a fourth-level and two fifth-level battleships that have become huge torches and are burning violently. The Mawei troops on the battleship couldn't save the fire, so they jumped into the sea to escape, and were soon rescued by the surrounding warships.

There was no way, Zheng Jun's boats were like ants, desperately surrounding. Once these ant colonies are approached from the dead corner of the artillery, or under the cover of thick gunsmoke, they will immediately be thrown up with fire oil and fire bricks, and Zheng Jun also has explosives packs to learn from the Mawei Army, but they are all close, and once they still come up, it will be regarded as an explosion. At the same time, the crossbow arrows of the attacking side were also fired indiscriminately, even if the horsetail soldiers fired to stop them.

The bloody battle between the two sides has entered a white-hot heat, with majestic artillery fire falling from the sky, and the sound of killing spreading for twenty or thirty miles. Liu Guoxuan's heart is as hard as iron, and the person who holds the heart of death at this time is terrible. At this moment, his eyes were red, and he shouted loudly: "Pass my orders!" All the gunboats rushed with me. You can fight as many enemy ships as you can! On, all spelled! ”

However, due to the fierce battles on the sea, the smoke of gunfire was filled. The flag language no longer works. All orders can only be conveyed by the sound of guò drums. Knock knock! Knock knock! Knock knock! This repeats the triple drum. Shocking the heavens and the earth, this is a decisive battle order in the Zheng army that has no retreat, and it is devastating.

"Tom Tom"

"Tom Tom"

"Boom Boom"

"Boom Boom"

A gunboat in front of Liu Guoxuan's own flagship was hit by a series of shells from the Mawei Army, and eight flowering shells were hit in a row, which finally detonated the propellant of the cannon; With a huge explosion, a fire arched violently, and the upper decks were all lifted off in an instant, and the wooden planks flew up more than ten feet high. Then it smashed into the nearby sea like a thunderstorm; After the huge mast was broken, it happened to smash another warship on the left side of his side, and suddenly smashed the mast of the warship next to him, killing two birds with one stone, and the one on his left side also became a martyr.

The fire spread quickly, ravaging the entire gunboat, Liu Guoxuan was about to crack when he saw it, and slammed his fist on the bulkhead: "Turn the rudder!" Turn the rudder! ”

The helmsman was already making an emergency turn, and the hull was tilting so much to the side that it was almost unsteady. Because it was too close, after such a sharp turn. narrowly avoided the bombed battleship in front. In the smoke of gunpowder, Liu Guoxuan and his own gunboats were also firing their bows left and right, and the artillery fire on both sides was roaring endlessly, and one barrage after another was raging, spitting out fire snakes violently at the Mawei warship.

The smoke on the sea did not disperse, the waves were turbulent, the roaring war drums sounded to stop the clouds, and the cold murderous aura hurt the face. In the huge cabin of the first- and third-class battleships of the Eighth Squadron slightly behind, gunner Long Jie was steaming with a strip of wet cloth tied to his hand, and at the roar of gunner Chen Kai, he didn't care about wiping the sweat on his head, and quickly opened the gun lock and pulled out the gun inside;

This is a kind of Franc machine gun, a cannon with seven sub-guns, just now the continuous high-intensity firing, two have been broken, and the newly drawn guns are also red. Chen Kai yelled urgently: "No matter, drench with water, quickly!" ”

Long Jie didn't care if the water-drenched sub-gun could still be used, so he hurriedly stuffed another sub-gun loaded with ammunition into the mother gun and locked it. The gunner next to him immediately shouted and pushed the gun to the porthole, fixed.

Throughout the ship's cabin, every group of gunners was desperately reloading. There was a roar and a lot of chaos. When the black holes of the guns were pushed out of the portholes, the battleship basically completed its turn, and the enemy ships a few hundred meters away gradually came into view, and they were still approaching

"All aimed at the enemy's flagship." Artillery Commander Chen Kai roared wildly, "Open the cannon!" ”

"Tom Tom"

"Tom Tom"

"Tom Tom"

A cannon burst out with fire, roaring endlessly, and huge solid and flowering bullets all roared across the sky, like meteors catching the moon. Almost at the same time, tongues of fire also erupted from the side of Zheng Jun's ship, and countless shells intertwined in the sky. Some shells even collided in mid-air, "Bah! "There was a thrilling loud noise.

The flagship of Liu Guoxuan, the commander of the Zheng army with the handsome flag, is also a sail warship, but this Western-style sail warship has endured the baptism of the most shells at the moment, in addition to the water columns on the side of the ship, the waves are rolling, and there are two flowering bombs and a solid bomb to accurately hit the front deck of the battleship.

"Bang!" The solid cannonball smashed down hard, and then quickly bounced, first knocking a Zheng sergeant into a bloody flight, and then bombarding the mast, and "Bang!" "A bang. A mast clicked and tilted to the side. The two flowering bombs of Liang Wei exploded immediately when they landed on the deck, and suddenly there was no longer a single soldier Zheng standing within five or six meters of the explosion, and a terrifying hole appeared in the place of the explosion.

"Sail down! Drop the sails! The Zheng soldiers on the ship shouted in surprise and rushed up one after another, right here. Another solid bullet whistled and hit the deck, knocking out a big hole in the deck. The shells rushed into the lower floor, smashing the gunners inside with screams.

Originally, the Zheng army under the command of Liu Guoxuan was a desperate assault on small boats, but now large warships and gunboats began to rush up, and the twenty Western-style sail battleships he led suffered from the artillery fire of the Mawei Army three times that of ordinary warships, and the opposite Mawei Army fired a salvo, at least 500 cannonballs covered the sky, and the scene was like dancing under a thunderstorm, which made people feel a kind of shock that the sky was falling apart, and the timid people would be frightened just by looking at this scene.

Countless shells fell on the sea, causing the waves to be turbulent, and the waves rose more than a dozen feet high and poured on the ship like a mountain of waves.

When Liu Guoxuan's flag sail fired a salvo from the Mawei Army in the second round, the foredeck was hit by two solid bullets in a row again, and there was a loud bang, and the deck was blasted open with two large holes, and the bow of the ship was actually knocked several feet away. When they approached, the horsetail army's shotgun fell on the top of Zheng Jun's head like hail, which was more powerful than the machine guns of later generations, and suddenly fell into a large area, which frightened Zheng Jun's soldiers to scream in shock.

Before some fallen soldiers could get up, the building behind them was hit by another flowering bullet. The entire building was bombed to pieces, and the planks were shot all over the sky

The confrontation between the two sides, the scene is gorgeous and magnificent, the continuous cannon sound is deafening, the whistling cannonballs cover the sky, the sea is surging, the gods are angry, and the sea is roaring! The wind and clouds are changing color, and there is a tendency for the sky to fall apart. The two armies were not too far apart at this time, and they were only about 300 meters when they staggered. Under the leadership of Liu Guoxuan, the battleships of the Zheng army all pounced on them as if they were dead, the artillery fire was continuous, the war drums were earth-shattering, and the sound of killing was like a wave of waves

The disparity between the forces of the two sides is still too great, in the main fleet of the Zheng army, that is, hundreds of large warships, including 20 Western-style sail warships and large ships such as Fu ships and other warships and the Mawei army warships for a while, the Mawei army was injured a total of less than ten warships, none of which sank, but the Zheng army's naval division was sunk with ten ships, and there were more than a dozen seriously injured, and more than half of them were the twenty most elite Western-style warships of the Zheng army.

At this time, there are not many fools anymore, and most of their warships are not the opponents of the Mawei Army, so it is only right to surrender with a white flag at this time. Liu Guoxuan hit at this time, his ship was specially taken care of by the Mawei battleship, although it had not sunk, but it was seriously injured, the mast was broken, the sail was destroyed, and it seemed that it had become a target and could not be saved.

When the Mawei Army fired the next round of salvos and sent Liu Guoxuan to the bottom of the sea, the remaining more than 60 large and small warships of the Zheng Army hoisted the white flag one after another and surrendered! (To be continued......)